How To Use Palatable In A Sentence

  • Freedom was alive as well, in a vivid and scarcely palatable way. Times, Sunday Times
  • They will certainly enjoy some respite from the negative headlines which have been barracking them in recent weeks, which maybe renders the result palatable for all.
  • His films, as a result, are often repulsive; yet they contain the occasional flash of genius that may redeem the more unpalatable aspects of his work.
  • But the unpalatable fact is that we do live in a different world and we have to take appropriate steps.
  • She plays Themba's daughter who returns from exile to learn the unpalatable truth about her father.
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  • It is true that this explanation of the bright, conspicuous colours is only a hypothesis, but its foundations -- unpalatableness, and the liability of other butterflies to be eaten, -- are certain, and its consequences -- the existence of mimetic palatable forms -- conform it in the most convincing manner. Evolution in Modern Thought
  • Dundee United gorged themselves on a rich performance at Ibrox, but it was an afternoon which became bitterly unpalatable to Rangers.
  • I worry about incremental reforms that take so many people off the tax rolls in order to make them politically palatable.
  • And, unpalatable - or even downright outrageous - though it may seem, we will, eventually, have to start listening.
  • QE may appear to the coalition to be a more politically palatable way of addressing Britain's economic woes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Their eagerness to present a more palatable Golwalkar was also evident when they went in for presenting a 'filmy' version of Golwalkar. Kafila
  • Rimadyl is available in palatable liver flavored chewable tablets, as well as regular caplets.
  • You can relish the palatable dishes while enjoying the panoramic view by the beach side.
  • With the sauce, however, it was palatable, and I told the hostess that she didn't have to comp it.
  • I can honestly say that I have never had more unpalatable lamb cutlets in my life.
  • If there was no numbing and if the item was reasonably palatable, then they'd take another small bite and swallow.
  • A new intergovernmental conference could cut out the most controversial parts, making it more palatable to British tastes.
  • But the desire to make things palatable and shiny and cheerful needs to be resisted. Christianity Today
  • Viewed at the micro level, this idea appears palatable to the pro-choicer because it is assumes that the choice to abort the child will not be selected in every pregnancy.
  • Instead, check out the softcover Berenstain Bears books on which this series is based; they are much more palatable.
  • Boredom, cold water and unpalatable food are just some of the hardships facing Paul Cleasby, who has now been in Antalya jail for approaching three weeks.
  • Overall, the flavour was bland but palatable. The Sun
  • Whereas previously it was rather unpalatable on its own, it has improved greatly in flavour and is now versatile enough to be used in cooking.
  • Because of chemical pollution of rivers, the cost of producing safe, palatable drinking water has risen dramatically.
  • There was a wide range of palatable food and several party pieces were forthcoming afterwards.
  • Often it will have a sour, smelly, unpalatable fermentation.
  • The unpalatable fact is that China and India are already competing both with very low wages and in high tech as well. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is an inescapable fact that the next government will have to carry through some unpalatable changes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Most political biopics depict the personal life of the main figure while flattening out the historical details in order to make them more understandable, or palatable.
  • It is always associated with sweetveld grasses - those grasses which remain palatable through the dry season - and provides much nitrogen to the soil through its root nodules and litterfall.
  • To make standing in long lines more palatable, the airport will bring in local bands to entertain passengers in the evenings of Dec. 6 - 24 while they wait to check luggage or wind their way through security.
  • Nor do we taint John Le Carre's understated brilliance with the unpalatable thought that Jeffrey Archer is forever trying helplessly to write in roughly the same genre.
  • Such an outcome would be palatable were the big four offering exemplary service. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ibaraki Prefecture is a center of production for natto, which is a Japanese treat that few gaijin non-Japanese find palatable. Natto on demand » Japundit Blog
  • It is also designing bitterness blockers that should make less palatable foods such as broccoli and soy protein taste better. Times, Sunday Times
  • Thankfully Ferguson was one of them too, and the unthinkable defeat became merely an unpalatable draw.
  • When, with its thick, palatable flesh, it is cooked and placed on the table, it is known as the "drumstick" -- a favorite part of the fowl with hungry boys, vying, in their minds, with the "white meat" of the breast. Our Bird Comrades
  • _Gabi_ (_Caladium_) is another kind of esculent root, palatable to the natives, similar to the turnip, and throws up stalks from 1 to 3 feet high, at the end of which is an almost round leaf, dark green, from 3 to 5 inches diameter at maturity. The Philippine Islands
  • I would like to give her a tip to help make her suggestions more palatable.
  • Universal differs from Scubar in that the patrons are slightly more palatable, still jockish, however and with an emphasis on the metro.
  • Such byplay makes this baldly feminist agenda palatable.
  • I.e., it should be so unpalatable, so unprofitable for a bank and its executives that they exhaust every private means of survival before coming for their public "reaming". Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • True to his words and to my amazement, he has selected some of the ones I thought were unpalatable to the taste of the Chinese authorities.
  • There's plenty of artful writing and thought here, and her wit makes even the excess historical padding and linguistic hair-splitting palatable.
  • As distillers refined the process of making gin, it became more palatable, even without sugar.
  • Western policymakers are faced with some unpalatable facts of economic life. Times, Sunday Times
  • Barley straw is soft and palatable, and is widely used as bulk feed for beef cattle.
  • Adding water from home to the water at the show grounds may mask the smell and taste of the local water and make it more palatable to your horse.
  • They have commonly pottage for dinner, composed of cale or cole, leeks, barley or big, and butter; and this is reinforced with bread and cheese, made of skimmed-milk — At night they sup on sowens or flummery of oat-meal — In a scarcity of oats, they use the meal of barley and pease, which is both nourishing and palatable. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
  • It's an African continent too deeply locked into a historical discourse with the west to see past the rhetoric and face the unpalatable hard bitter truth.
  • The water is clear, colourless, palatable, odourless, mildly mineralised, and contains hydro carbonates of sodium and small quantities of fluorine.
  • So it's not just SNP policies he finds unpalatable. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is an unpalatable fact that rape makes a good news story.
  • After all, all she did was espouse extreme right wing policies, a lot of them palatable to many Australians.
  • More palatable calcium and vitamin D preparations have been formulated.
  • Such black-and-white bipolarity is enormously palatable when packaged in punchy, 90-second sound bytes. Qanta Ahmed, MD: 'The Women's Voices Now' Film Festival: Women's Voices From the Muslim World
  • The water of the springs is as clear as crystal, except when rendered grumly by dashing rains, and is far sweeter and more palatable than the best filtered water of the lowlands. Mountain Scenery. The Scenery of the Mountains of Western North Carolina and Northwestern South Carolina.
  • The unpalatable fact is that most young ladies are simply not interested in sport, or certainly not in the boys' numbers.
  • Rosé veal offers a more palatable alternative. Times, Sunday Times
  • The truth, as always, is slightly less palatable.
  • In its simplest form it is quick to produce, but almost unpalatable to modern tastes!
  • That implies politically unpalatable cuts: disability benefits, say. Times, Sunday Times
  • For those who find its bitter taste unpalatable, having it with half a spoon of honey should help.
  • In fact, this was merely a ploy to make the government's actual intentions seem more palatable.
  • According to Wong, the aestheticization of Chinese history makes it palatable, along with reinforcing the Orientalist binary opposition between eastern barbarity and western civility.
  • She had just decided that she didn't want to drown in academia and become a prof, nor was her second choice of being a short-story author palatable.
  • Spam ( unsolicited email) is an unpalatable reality of computer use and a constant battle for the people who manage email flow. Times, Sunday Times
  • Central contracts make the current proposed imbalance palatable, assuming money is the only issue for the clubs.
  • We're talking about very palatable foods, high in fat and high in sugar.
  • The biscuits can be made palatable with some butter or margarine and a spread. The Hayfever Handbook - a summer survival guide
  • It not only promotes appetite, but also enables the masking of unpalatable feedstuffs such as poor hay and silage.
  • ( "And the Nebula goes to ...":: rotates brand in brazier of hot coals::) It would certainly make losing the award a lot more palatable. Nebula Weekend, days 2-3
  • But we need to be engaging with people who we find most unpalatable. Times, Sunday Times
  • He advocates referring to "trial lawyers" as "public-protection attorneys," replacing "taxes" with "membership fees," and generally couching the entire Democratic message in palatable — even deceptive — language in order to simplify large ideas and disguise them behind innocent but powerful-sounding phrases. It Isn't the Message, Stupid
  • Very palatable semi-sweet style with ripe pear and mineral flavours and a tangy, yeasty finish.
  • siss" work palatable to the sterner sex much of it takes the form of instruction in camp life -- cooking in tin cans and other handy home-made devices. The New Education A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915)
  • Although Jay Jay finds it necessary to mix display ads with his reading matter to make the latter palatable, he declares that his painful monthly emission has "the largest circulation of any medical magazine in the world" -- thereby indicating that while his mentality may be atrophied, his imagination is intumescent. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
  • Robinson has toned down the less palatable aspects of his party's policy in recent years.
  • The insects store this chemical in their bodies in order to make themselves unpalatable to predators.
  • There is no getting round the unpalatable fact that your best option is to overpay the mortgage as much as you can afford, to reduce the debt. Times, Sunday Times
  • The cowish, also, or biscuit root, about the size of a walnut, which they reduce to a very palatable flour; together with the jackap, aisish, quako, and others; which they cook by steaming them in the ground. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
  • He put the cup to his lips and swallowed a mouthful of surprisingly palatable coffee.
  • Bullfrogs, unlike native frogs, are unpalatable to the non-native fishes.
  • Barley straw is soft and palatable, and is widely used as bulk feed for beef cattle.
  • What do you have to do to a trifle to make it so unpalatable? Times, Sunday Times
  • It might be unpalatable to insist on smaller families but perhaps to limit the number of cars per household would be a viable alternative. Times, Sunday Times
  • All the drinks below are very palatable, however, and have the ability to be cellared and drunk as required.
  • Every Sunday, a palatable Champagne brunch is offered at the hotel's Garden Cafe.
  • At present the tamaraw is found primarily in remote areas that have been partly cleared, largely by fire, so that only small pockets of trees remain among coarse grasses such as Imperata cylindrica (a widespread, unpalatable tropical weed commonly called cogon, kunai, alang alang, lalang, or blady grass), and "tahalib" (Saccharum spontaneum). 6 Wild Banteng
  • What do you have to do to a trifle to make it so unpalatable? Times, Sunday Times
  • Most food is equally palatable hot or cold, apart from very high-fat foods, which stick around the mouth unpleasantly when cold.
  • Beaded lizards and Gila monsters are opportunistic foragers, just as monitors are, eating any palatable thing they find.
  • Even beetroot and spinach can be rendered palatable with a little juicing and some judicious additions.
  • To get thin, you should eat before you go grocery shopping, not buy fatty or sugary foods, have healthy stuff on hand for snacks and tie yourself to the mast by discarding or making unpalatable any yummies lying around.
  • Democracy requires that the results of a properly certified vote be accepted, no matter how unpalatable the outcome.
  • Sugar (or sweeteners) must be added to make cranberry juice palatable. Times, Sunday Times
  • He made the most unpalatable insinuations and unpleasant comparisons without hurting anyone's feelings and without giving cause for disapproval.
  • Limits are also imposed because the public finds a technology unpalatable: nuclear power and GM food are good examples.
  • His views on capital punishment are unpalatable to many.
  • Need a good drink recipe, or a vile and unpalatable one?
  • When combined with butyrin and water, it made a cheap and more-or-less palatable butter substitute.
  • Overall, the flavour was bland but palatable. The Sun
  • To make the appropriation of sale tax revenue more palatable, proponents labeled it a ‘sporting goods’ tax.
  • In fact, in my experience, the more palatable art tends to obfuscate truth to an even greater degree than art that reflects some of humanity's fallen state.
  • All these remedies have delightful aromas making them pleasurably palatable.
  • “The country not immediately the seat of either party is richer than when the war began,” he complained, “but the long disuse of taxes, and their natural unpalatableness, have embarrassed the business exceedingly, and Tories, grumbling Whigs, and party, have all thrown in their aid to increase the discontent.” Robert Morris
  • Because of chemical pollution of rivers, the cost of producing safe, palatable drinking water has risen dramatically.
  • Bad Palladio would always be more palatable than bad Bernini or Mansart. Andrea Palladio's influential architecture at National Building Museum
  • They did not use compost, but they often placed their garden near the pigpen, chicken yard, or rabbit hutches so that these animals could convert less palatable garden produce into manure.
  • Apparently the seeds are bitter and unpalatable, which is why I had this task. The Cow Tongue Flower Chronicles
  • And sometimes you have to choose between a range of difficult, even unpalatable, alternatives.
  • I go back to catching the tiddlers, wondering how many of them might make breakfast, and if they might not be just a little small and bony to be palatable.
  • Apparently now they are more palatable but lacking in food value.
  • The days before these ordeals take place are spent in cramming your mind with mystic formulæ and indigestible dates – unpalatable diets, until you wish that books and science and you were buried in the depths of the sea. The Story of My Life
  • Senator Long tends to avoid unpalatable social issues.
  • During the first trial, we waited until the bird ate both items to make sure that each bird at least tasted an unpalatable prey item.
  • Spam ( unsolicited email) is an unpalatable reality of computer use and a constant battle for the people who manage email flow. Times, Sunday Times
  • But for more palatable marketing purposes to the YPG class, a group for which the term "minivan" has largely fallen into disfavor, I prefer the term "city wagon. The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - washingtonpost.com
  • That's an important point, which makes the current policy somewhat more palatable.
  • But fat and salt make foods palatable and tasty, and encourage you to buy them. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is no such excuse for ABC’s Private Practice, a spinoff of Grey’s Anatomy, which is also on tonight and supposedly offers a postfeminist sensibility that is more playful and palatable than the overearnest women’s lib of the Lindsay Wagner generation. Wednesday
  • Another way is to control deer depredations passively, with deer-proof fencing or the planting of ornamental plants unpalatable to deer.
  • Ethanol vapor emanating from palatable fruit may act as an odor cue, guiding bats and other frugivores to the fruit, and aiding them to assess its quality.
  • They make him express a vulgar scorn at Polonius which utterly degrades his gentility, and which no explanation can render palatable; they make him show contempt, and curl up the nose at Ophelia’s father, —contempt in its very grossest and most hateful form; but they get applause by it: it is natural, people say; that is, the words are scornful, and the actor expresses scorn, and that they can judge of: but why so much scorn, and of that sort, they never think of asking. On the Tragedies of Shakspere Considered with Reference to Their Fitness for Stage Representation
  • How unfortunate that that the wooden tomatoes and overly bitter arugula are unpalatable.
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  • What do you have to do to a trifle to make it so unpalatable? Times, Sunday Times
  • This is horrible and unpalatable stuff, which makes uncomfortable and unsettling reading.
  • Oddly enough, just chlorinating the water may remove enough iron from the solution to make the water much more palatable.
  • The distillery's regular version delivers palatable flavours of red fruits, spice and vanilla.
  • By domesticae, he means those simple uncompounded purgatives which everybody can administer to themselves; such as senna-tea, stewed prunes and senria, chewing a little rhubarb, or dissolving an ounce and a half of manna in fair water, with the juice of a lemon to make it palatable. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
  • The unpalatable truth, which the cosy triumvirate of mainstream parties refuse to face, is that there is not, and never has been a liberal consensus in this country.
  • During the 1830s a French pharmacist devised a mechanism for making soft-gelatin capsules which could then be filled - usually with unpalatable, oily, or semi-solid medicaments that could not easily be made into pills.
  • To make it palatable, he has used tomatoes, tamarind sauce, onions, chillies and a drop of virgin Olive oil.
  • Policies that are effective, efficient and politically palatable have proved elusive everywhere.
  • It was too unpalatable, too disloyal, altogether too abhorrent to countenance.
  • The tail is fatty tissue, rich and palatable when cooked, and was greatly relished by early trappers and explorers.
  • He may be palatable in small slices, but in heaping helpings, he's enough to put you off your pudding for good.
  • Their mistakes were made all the more unpalatable by the largesse with which our cash is dished out to undeserving causes.
  • For a start, the unpalatable truth is that the PC is in real danger of becoming an unsellable product.
  • Burns doesn't sugar-coat his often unpalatable message for mass appeal, and uses every opportunity to commit career suicide – watch his cheekily subversive turn on BBC News, easily flummoxing a tediously professional Huw Edwards. This week's new comedy
  • Where this turn of the story tastes unpalatable is the assumption that politicians win only by using muscle power.
  • Birds with prior experience of both prey types were allowed into an arena with both palatable prey and aposematic prey on backgrounds that either closely matched or contrasted with the coloration of the aposematic prey.
  • Surely the world is filled with unpalatable ideas which we are none the less forced to accept.
  • The acidity of the soursop varies: the pulp of some fruits can be eaten raw, while others have to be dressed with sugar to make them palatable.
  • Obama allayed the fears of swing white voters by being so racially neutral and thus more palatable. Matthew Yglesias » Heilemann & Halperin’s Race Stuff
  • Try telling any man that his meat's not palatable and see what happens!
  • They didn't even want to eat them (they were described as unpalatable). The God Delusion
  • Page 56 like, and where fresh beef is scarcely ever tasted by the poor people, the collard is a very great blessing: because when boiled in a pot with a piece of fat meat and balls of corn meal dough, having the size and appearance of ordinary white turnips, called dumplings, it makes palatable a diet which would otherwise be all but intolerable. Recollections of the Inhabitants, Localities, Superstitions, and KuKlux Outrages of the Carolinas. By a "Carpet-Bagger" Who Was Born and Lived There
  • Patriotic bakers and housewives all over the country have been trying to produce a wheatless loaf which is light, palatable, and sufficiently durable to stand transportation. Food Guide for War Service at Home Prepared under the direction of the United States Food Administration in co-operation with the United States Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of Education, with a preface by Herbert Hoover
  • Would my contributions be more palatable were I to attenuate the libertarianism? The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Sixth Now the “Most Reversed” Circuit?
  • Upon journeying the length and breadth of my home land, and discovering little in way of palatable variation, I turned my attention to the multitudes of foreign possibilities.
  • It might be unpalatable to insist on smaller families but perhaps to limit the number of cars per household would be a viable alternative. Times, Sunday Times
  • He should ensile it in a way that will produce a good palatable silage with the least loss of feed nutrients and the least wear and tear on the silo. Chapter 2
  • However, if you find the taste so unpalatable that you don't drink it, then you need to do something to make it more drinkable.
  • Only the tender green leaves growing off the stems are really palatable, so this type of cress requires a bit of prep work.
  • And if this wonderful alchemy of converting risky loans into securities palatable to risk conscious investors falters, the music stops.
  • Food manufacturers make their profits from converting a small range of cheap processed bulk crops plus lots of additives into addictive, palatable foods. Times, Sunday Times
  • This species has sweet and palatable bulbs and also bears clusters of bulbils at the flower head.
  • Lights are maintained at the perfect lux… which makes great conversations and of course the food is as palatable as the views of rhythmic movements of those in waiting.
  • A key element that made the restructuring palatable was a two-tier wage structure. Times, Sunday Times
  • For others, the only vinifera varietals that are remotely palatable (particularly where reds are concerned) are the sweets. A Tale of Two Niagaras
  • The truth is not always very palatable.
  • But we need to be engaging with people who we find most unpalatable. Times, Sunday Times
  • Like grain farming dairying is a relatively scalable enterprise, especially if the cattle are fed upon unpalatable leavings or fallow land which would otherwise be underutilized. Low Vitamin D Levels Put Healthy Children at Risk
  • However, the mice did not eat the palatable food long enough or in sufficient quantity to maintain weight.
  • It looked the most palatable of the dogs' dinners and most healthy, with a good deal of brown rice. The Sun
  • With oats, the straw would have a slight tinge of green so that, hopefully, it would have a higher feeding value and also be more palatable.
  • Spam ( unsolicited email) is an unpalatable reality of computer use and a constant battle for the people who manage email flow. Times, Sunday Times
  • The feeling that you’re regurgitating what’s gone before and just part of an endless feedback of making crap pop singles or oldies palatable is one of the reasons I don’t make many mashups unless I have a good reason (political/humour) and a message to do so. Reshuffle > Edit > Recyle > Goto 10?
  • All the drinks below are very palatable, however, and have the ability to be cellared and drunk as required.
  • It is unpalatable to livestock because of its bitter taste so ranchers consider it to be a noxious weed.
  • Some will be politically unpalatable. Times, Sunday Times
  • In fact, the unpalatable truth is that our ocker mates are pretty damned good at everything they do.
  • My meanderings through the crowd had taken me back to the buffet tables where I'd managed to procure a glass of wine from among less palatable offerings.
  • Ministers and mandarins worry that scientific advice will close off politically palatable options. Times, Sunday Times
  • A better way of making old wine more palatable is to pur it over clingfilm/saran wrap into a decanter/large glass and drink from tere. the long chain polymers of the film (polythene to be precise) bind to 2,4,6-trichloranisole (the chemical that makes wine smell musty/old - abbreviated to TCA) and, for a better word, refreshes it. Make House Wine Taste Better With Soda Water | Lifehacker Australia
  • He believed that in order to make a third term palatable there must be an interval of another and different administration. My Memories of Eighty Years
  • The purée of carrots and celery was an almost unpalatable watery gloop, which ended up pushed to the side of the table.
  • I propose a framework for a solution that might be palatable to both the military and the CIA.
  • It seems clear from the responses that we prefer to put to the backs of our minds unpalatable subjects such as injury, death, being left without a partner or our children being orphaned.
  • The palatable composite drink good flavor and rich nutrition was prepared.
  • I shall beard him in his gullet, and, while he lingeringly chokes to death over my unpalatableness and general spinefulness, do you, fair damsels, flee to the mountains lest the valleys fall upon you. CHAPTER III
  • Discovery must develop primetime programs to make the idea of ceasing the production of "filthy human children" more palatable. TIME.com: Top Stories
  • A few wild fruits are sometimes procured, among which is the small purple apple mentioned by Cook, and a fruit which has the appearance of a grape, though in taste more like a green gooseberry, being excessively sour: probably were it meliorated by cultivation, it would become more palatable. The Expedition to Botany Bay
  • Humour makes the truth more palatable, if ultimately the film ends up suggesting that some things shouldn't be laughed off.
  • People cannot bear the metal and unpalatable flavor in the intensified foods.
  • Knowing the difference is vital as the ‘bitter’ varieties have high levels of cyanogenic glucosides, an unpalatable form of cyanide, which can be harmful if ingested in large quantities.
  • In a sense, the core of the mindset becomes co-opted by commercial interests and is repackaged in a friendlier, more palatable form.
  • So where better to focus than France's Loire Valley, known best for its grapes which thrive on acid soils and produce some of the best and most palatable wines to suit barbecue steaks or fish and seafood.
  • Set against these varied gifts is a rather less palatable practice that is currently in full swing. Times, Sunday Times
  • QUOTE: “Ibaraki Prefecture is a center of production for natto, which is a Japanese treat that few ‘gaijin’ non-Japanese find palatable.” Natto on demand » Japundit Blog
  • Early or salad radishes must be harvested as soon as they are mature, otherwise the roots become tough, pithy and unpalatable and the plants bolt; treatment of some 6 week old cultivars with 0.1 per cent aqueous maleic hydrazide is reported to prevent bolting and help the roots retain their flavour and texture. Chapter 27
  • This air leads to the oxidization of the ale and makes for a less palatable brew the next day. Long Island Beer Events
  • My cancer-busting tea is tasting slightly more palatable and I also tried a session of acupuncture.
  • The magazines are chock - full of similar advice, but in a more palatable package.
  • To make this incursion palatable, he suggested adding about five times the area to the park farther north.
  • Berg tapped into the unpalatable side of public opinion, becoming addicted to verbal wind-ups and hostility with fatal results.
  • Yet, and though it might seem unpalatable to the Rangers faithful, the truth is that the full effects of the club's trade deficit continue to be staved off in a footballing context.
  • It might be unpalatable to insist on smaller families but perhaps to limit the number of cars per household would be a viable alternative. Times, Sunday Times

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